The people will be heard tomorrow. This is the beginning. And maybe some Police will be marching themselves.
Me, I have never marched before but I am doing so to defend the last remnants of a system of justice intended to protect the vulnerable and promote a fairer society. And no £3.73, there's no penny to drop - savage cuts are not the answer - these people paid heftily into their pensions. Tomorrow is called 'March for the Alternative' - a very important exhortation: we are not just saying stop the cuts; we are saying they were not necessary in the first place. The economic predicament was not brought about by our frontline services. The responsibility lies firmly within an unregulated financial sector. Yet WE who provided such a huge bailout have had to pay a second time in terms of unemployment, frozen wages and lost pensions. There blooming well ARE clear alternatives: the Robin Hood tax, the enforcement of tax liabilities, the curtailment of tax avoidance schemes particularly in the corporate sector and the termination of an obscene bonus culture.
AND we can always find £15billion to spend on a war in Afghanistan, £4.5bn this year alone, while we've just started a new war on Libya.
The alternatives are limited as long as we practise inaction. Democracy isn't working.